Word: dinitrophenol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular with some physicians, should not be; it can do grave harm, and there is no reason for giving it, since an underactive thyroid is very rarely the cause of obesity. Also sharply condemned: other hormones, such as pituitary extract (they have nothing to do with overweight), laxatives and dinitrophenol (it raises the temperature so that "the obese are literally frying in their own fat," and it causes cataracts...